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- I feel like the world has lost 30 IQ points over the last two years. I can’t think of a better way to describe it, the dumbing down of everything is palpable and accelerating.by Toutouxc
- And it had already lost about 30 points through mobile devices and touchscreens, as I've commented before:
See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37521911>, also <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787831> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38659367>
For the past several years (since at least 2020, if not a few years earlier), I've commented/posted to HN exclusively from desktop systems.
The bad news is that this is as good as it gets ;-)
by dredmorbius - IQ levels are same as before, it's just easier to spot differences.by mmarian
- politicians are one of the easiest jobs to replace with AIby seydor
- I really hope you’re joking, but it’s hard to tell on here!by dwb
- We've had the technology to replace what the public percieves as the job of politicians for decades.
- I knew it would be Canada before even opening the link, what a total embarrassment!by tamimio
- Mais par contre, Canada also has some tremendous senatorial committees. They asked real questions of Hinton.by clbrmbr
- This is our new normal. It's not necessarily interesting. But you have to expect nearly everyone is using AI at this point.by tysilva
- It is actually darkly fascinating how eager so many people are about racing towards NPCdom.
- If he only reads the prompt and the RNG state of the prompt time it might be an improvement. Now people will claim that the RNG is sentient.by llg-312g
- Policy influence idea: find out who are the assistants of policians and what ai assistant, subscription they use and give them different answers than to everyone else. You do not have to even corrupt them.by npodbielski
- Now identify voting blocks amongst your users and do it on a national scale.by morkalork
- I have both experienced and hear my coworkers across the tech industry complaining about having to parse slop from their peers, management and juniors they work with. AI comments on their merge requests that sound right, but are subtly incorrect and irrelevant that add to their cognitive load. PRD (Product Requirements Document) slop from PM's that are adding features for the sake of it and is essentially busy work. Leadership asking to add AI to evaluate employees and dashboards out the wazoo.
The floor has been raised for sure, and I am writing less boilerplate than before, and am able to diagnose bugs in my work quicker, but the amount of people that seemingly just copy and paste the AI output without critically thinking is causing me distress. There are seemingly no consequences either, more AI = more good.
by 650 - That is the video title, but I think it should be paraphrased here to be more correct given our highly technical audience. The politician is actually reading an unedited AI response, which includes "editors notes" or maybe you could call it meta-content.by jiveturkey
- > Here's a more natural flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points.
- Many comments pointing out this is part of the response rather than the prompt.
But the whole speech is the response. What do you call the bits at the start "Certainly, I can write a speech in this style" type thing, and at the end "Would you like to learn more about political speech writing?"
Perhaps something like "AI tells" but perhaps there's already an industry term.
Edit: hadn't watched the video, this is the former "response to prompt" type tell.
by onraglanroad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MU6q9G0Sf0
I would rather speak to this man than anyone reading anything AI-written
by arionmiles - For those not grasping the joke: the response is a largely incomprehensible mix of Hindi (I think) and (very-heavily accented) English. From an Indian news programme.
Shades of "Prisencolinensinainciusol":
by dredmorbius - To be technical, what he read wasn't prompt, it's part of the AI's response to the prompt.
But yes, it's a giant tell that politician used AI to write his speech, and he didn't thoroughly edit the response when preparing the final draft.
by kmoser - Encouraging that news.com.au (a Rupert Murdoch shop) staff can't tell between AI prompt and response...by netsharc
- No, that politician trusted some poorly paid staff to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful).
The staff used an LLM and did not bother to check (or got their check wrong.)
One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible, the conséquence should be in proportion to the gravity.
by phtrivier